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Bill Gates' new favorite book is "Enlightenment Now" by Steven Pinker.
Pinker's book makes a case that rational thought and scientific inquiry are constantly improving the world.
We're living in the safest era of human history, according to Pinker's analysis.
Bill Gates' favorite author recently published a new book — and Gates has already called it his "favorite book of all time," on his blog.

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Starbucks is debuting a new, over-the-top Frappuccino — called the Crystal Ball Frappuccino — on Thursday, according to baristas.
The turquoise, peach-flavored Frappuccino is engineered for Instagram and will be on the menu for less than a week.
The Crystal Ball Frappuccino follows in the footsteps of the instantly viral Unicorn Frappuccino as Starbucks attempts to reinvent its Frappuccino strategy after a rough 2017.

Enlarge / Stephen Hawking speaks via satellite during the Science Channel portion of the 2010 Television Critics Association Press Tour at the Langham Hotel in Pasadena, California. (credit: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
I first met Stephen Hawking in March 2003, when the most famous scientist in the world visited Texas. For a young science reporter at the Houston Chronicle, an invitation to interview Hawking during a stop in College Station rated as a real coup.
Reporters never like to submit their questions to a subject in advance; indeed it is something I often refuse to do.

Erin Brodwin / Business InsiderI've been ignoring my mother for a week and a half.
For the past 10 days, I've stifled the small voice she instilled in the back of my mind to remind me that forgoing breakfast is nutritional doom — all for the sake of a diet known as intermittent fasting.
The diet essentially involves abstaining from food for a set period of time ranging from 16 hours to several days — and surprisingly, it has a lot of scientific backing.
Large studies have found intermittent fasting to be just as reliable for weight loss as traditional diets.

Enlarge / This headset will give you a much sharper image and a much lighter wallet than the original Vive. (credit: Sam Machkovech)
HTC's higher-resolution Vive Pro, first announced back in January, is setting new records for the price of a mass-market virtual reality headset. In pre-orders starting today ahead of planned April 5 shipments, customers will have to shell out $799 for the improved Vive Pro headset, a price that does not include any controllers or Lighthouse tracking base stations.
While the original Vive also cost $799 when it launched nearly two years ago, that package included two controllers and the two tracking stations necessary for un-occluded, room-scale VR.

In the years before (and even some years after) the Game Boy revolutionized the portable gaming market, self-contained, single-serving LCD games were the best electronic gaming-on-the-go many of us could hope for. The Internet Archive has now captured a handful of these proto-examples of portable gaming for play in the Web browser, via MAME-powered emulation.
The Archive's just-launched Handheld History Collection captures a menagerie, including Coleco's miniature LCD Ms.